Women’s Space Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Mara Ventura on North Bay Jobs With Justice Raising the Wage Campaign and Maddy Hirchfield on North Bay Labor Council’s Campaign and Candidate Training, has been uploaded to the web archive.

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living wage, women in politics

Women’s Space Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Mara Ventura on North Bay Jobs With Justice Raising the Wage Campaign and Maddy Hirchfield on North Bay Labor Council’s Campaign and Candidate Training, has been uploaded to the web archive. The show was recorded, broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM  on Monday 9/2/19 at 11 AM (repeats at 11 PM) and repeat broadcast in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on Wednesday 9/4/19 at 11 AM. 

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA190902.html

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North Bay Jobs for Justice’s Raise the Wage Campaign

North Bay Labor Council’s upcoming Campaign and Candidate Training

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Featuring Guests

1. Mara Ventura, Executive Director, North Bay Jobs With Justice

2. Maddy Hirchfield,  Political Director,  North Bay Labor Council

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Accomplishments this Week in Women’s History (Click for section below)

Announcements (Click for section below)

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 Our Featured Guests

1. Mara Ventura and 2. Maddy Hirchfield share their paths to labor activism. Mara talks about struggle to get $15 as the minimum wage and the successess in the North Bay. See the North Bay Jobs With Justice website for the Raise the Wage Campaign in our counties.  Maddy encourages more labor friendly folks to run for office and is presenting an educational opportuity by the North Bay Labor Council on Septembe 28 and 29 at the Plumbers’ Hall on Campaign and Candidate Training.

About our Guest:   Mara Ventura is Executive Director of North Bay Jobs for Justice. She was involved in university student organizing with MEChA.

Guest Link: www.northbayjobswithjustice.org

About our Guest: Maddy Hirchfield has been involved in politics and government in Sonoma County for decades. She served as Chair of the Sonoma County Democratic Party from 1996 to 2002, in addition to serving as a delegate on the California State Democratic Party. She worked for the state Legislature serving two California State Assemblymembers between 2002 and 2014. Hirshfield has also been a successful political manager and consultant representing dozens of local and state candidates and ballot measures. Maddy is the first Political Director of the North Bay Labor Council.

Guest Link: https://unionhall.aflcio.org/nblc

Event Link:  September 28 and 29, 2019, Campaign and Candidate Training hhttps://unionhall.aflcio.org/nblc/events/candidatecampaign-training

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Accomplishments this Week in Women’s History:

Frances Perkins: (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880[1][2] – May 14, 1965) was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes were the only original members of the Roosevelt cabinet to remain in office for his entire presidency.
During her term as Secretary of Labor, Perkins executed many aspects of the New Deal, including the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Public Works Administration and its successor the Federal Works Agency, and the labor portion of the National Industrial Recovery Act. With the Social Security Act she established unemployment benefits, pensions for the many uncovered elderly Americans, and welfare for the poorest Americans. She pushed to reduce workplace accidents and helped craft laws against child labor. Through the Fair Labor Standards Act, she established the first minimum wage and overtime laws for American workers, and defined the standard forty-hour work week. She formed governmental policy for working with labor unions and helped to alleviate strikes by way of the United States Conciliation Service. Perkins dealt with many labor questions during World War II, when skilled labor was vital and women were moving into formerly male jobs.

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Announcements

Saturday, September 7, 11:00 AM to noon,  Sebastopol Peace Wall 5th annual Honoree Induction Ceremony. This year’s Honorees: Jim Corbett, Tula Jaffe, Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey and Dr. Earl Herr. https://www.sebastopollivingpeacewall.com/

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Sunday, September 8, 2019, 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM, Climate Action Concert: A Benefit for Daily Acts,, SOMO Village Event Center, Rohnert Park, CA,  & https://dailyacts.org/events-1/?eid=11826

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Monday, September 16, 2019, Climate Action Special on Women’s Spaces Radio Show,  Radio KBBF 898.1 FM North Bay or streaming at https://kbbf.org/live/. Repeats on Wednesday, September 18 on Radio KPCA 101.2 FM or streaming at https://petalumacommunityaccess.org/kpca/

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Friday, September 20, 2019, Planet and National Climate Strike,  three days before the UN Climate Summit in NYC, young people and adults will strike all across the US and world to demand transformative action be taken to address the climate crisis. Millions of us will take the streets to demand a right to a future, and we’re inviting you to #strikewithus

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September 28 and 29, 2019, Campaign and Candidate Training https://unionhall.aflcio.org/nblc/events/candidatecampaign-training

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Music Selections:

The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin:

The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

The Ones Who Have Come Before Us by Bev Grant from the album We Were There: Songs of Women Labor  (Human Condition Music)

Bread and Roses sung byBobbie McGee from the album Classic Labor Songs from Smithsoian Folkways (2006 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)

Which Side are you On by Bev Grant from the album We Were There: Songs of Women Labor  (Human Condition Music)

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For music purchasing opportunity:

Link to Spinitron.com Playlist of the Women’s Spaces Show

 

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Regina Brennan on the 2018 Youth Summit and Mara Ventura and Maria Guadalupe Garcia on North Bay Jobs With Justice, recorded on 9/17/18, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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education, fair employment, living wage, Sonoma County, Women's Spaces, Youth

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Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Regina Brennan on the 2018 Youth Summit and Mara Ventura and Maria Guadalupe Garcia on North Bay Jobs With Justice, recorded on 9/17/18, has been uploaded to the web archives. The show was recorded, broadcast and streamed over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM in the NorthBay on Monday 9/17/18 and repeat broadcast and streamed over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM in Petaluma on Tuesday 9/18/18.

The link to the show’s archive webpage is

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA180917.html 

Announcements    (See Links below)

Featured Guests

1.Regina Brennan , Sonoma County Black Forum, Co-Coordinator of the 2018 Youth Summit Lead, Serve, and Thrive

2. Mara Ventura , Director, North Bay Jobs with Justice

3. Maria Guadalupe Garcia , Lead Organizer, North Bay Jobs with Justice

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1. Regina Brennan shares her concern for preparing youth for a sustainable future and her path to helping form the Sonoma County Black Forum, the co-sponsor of the 2018 Youth Summit with the Sonoma State University Black Student Union this coming Saturday September 22. The all day event is free for youth of grades 9 -12 and their parents.  There will be workshops given for youth on coding, financial literacy, college and careers and also a workshop for parents. The Youth Summit was inspired by such annual summits at Stanford University, and it gives youth some glimpses into careers that encourage them to work for that goal and where to look for resources to support that mission.

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About our Guest:  Regina Brennan decided to retire from the Santa Rosa City School District in 2017 after nearly 30 years as a classroom teacher. Her teaching career began at George Washington Middle School in Long Beach CA where she was Teacher of the Year in1993 and ended at Santa Rosa High School where for 18 years she taught a variety of World History classes. Retirement means developing her small gardening business, learning Spanish, spending more time with her family, and trying to stay relevant during uncertain times. She, along with a small group of educators and activists created the Sonoma County Black Forum.

Guest Link: http://sonomacountyblackforum.weebly.com/

2018 Youth Summit Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2071676142844640/a>

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2.  Mara Ventura and 3. Maria Guadalupe Garcia talk of the need of their chapter North Bay Jobs With Justice, one of 52. of the national labor organization Jobs With Justice., that was founded 31 years ago. Mara and Maria also share their path into labor activism. They explain how jobs with just and safe working conditions and just  compensation are needed for a healthy work and family life. They also talk about Workers Rights Boards being set up in various localities and how it is a more just alternative for labor to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

 About our Guest:  Mara Ventura is the Director of North Bay Jobs with Justice, a local workers rights and immigrant rights organization. She’s been a student organizer for 4 years throughout Oregon and Washington, a labor union organizer for 6 years throughout the country, and has been organizing here with North Bay Jobs with Justice since January of 2017.

About our Guest: Maria Guadalupe Garcia is the Lead Organizer of North Bay Jobs With Justice. . Maria previously worked with the California Faculty Association on a statewide campaign called Students for a Quality Education, where students and faculty together are fighting for a free, accessible and quality education at all the California State Universities. Maria began as the Lead Organizer for North Bay Jobs With Justice after helping Sacramento put Rent Control on the ballot, this past Spring.

Guest links:  http://northbayjobswithjustice.org/

https://www.facebook.com/nbjwj/

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Announcements

Saturday, September 22, at 8 AM, the 2018 Youth Summit at Sonoma State Universtiy, in Ballroom A, at 1801 East Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park. For details, call 707-235-1965. The all day event is free for youth of grades 9 -12 and their parents. hthttps://www.facebook.com/events/2071676142844640/

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Music Selections:

The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin: The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

Let There Be Peace sung by Becky Hobbs from the Album Nanyehi Beloved Women of the Cherokee (2011 Becky Hobbs)

A Change is Gonna Come sung by Leila James
from the Album A Change is Gonna Come
(2005 Warner Brothers Records, Inc.)

Link to Spinitron.com Playlist of the Women’s Spaces Show

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Wei-Ling Huber on Hospitality Workers and Erin Brockovich on holdng PG&E accountable for wildfires, recorded on 7/9/18, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

Community organizing, living wage, Self esteem, Wildfire, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Wei-Ling Huber on Hospitality Workers and Erin Brockovich on holdng PG&E accountable for wildfires, recorded on 7/9/18, has been uploaded to the web archives. The show was recorded, broadcast and streamed over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM in the NorthBay on Monday 7/9/18 and repeat broadcast and streamed over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM in Petaluma on Tuesday 7/10/18.

The link to the show’s archive webpage is

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA180709.html

Announcements    (See Links below)

Featured Guests

1.  Wei-Ling Huber , Presidemt – UNITE HERE Local 2850,
North Bay Hospitality Workers

2.  Erin Brockovich, Author, Consumer Activist

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1. Wei-Ling Huber shares her road to activism that began in the university to  clamor for Ethnic Studies. Wei-Ling’s research helped her to realize the best way to bring people of color to more equitable living conditions was through the labor movement. Wei-Ling talks about the plight of hospitality workers in Sonoma County where hotel rooms are expensive yet the hospitality workers often make just over minimum wage with heavy work loads in unsafe conditions. Wei-Ling announces a rally in support of hospitality workers at the Hyatt Vineyard in Santa Rosa on Friday at 1:30 pm.

About our Guest: Wei-Ling Huber is a lifelong activist for justice,and has worked to improve and expand economic opportunities for Alameda, Contra Costa and Sonoma County workers since 1995 through her work with UNITE HERE 2850, the East Bay hospitality workers union. She has been the President of UNITE HERE Local 2850 since 2006 and a General Vice President of her international union since 2014.

Guest Links: www.facebook.com/UniteHere2850

Related Link: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/7311579-181/hyatt-vineyard-creek-workers-vote

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2.  Erin Brockovich shares her story on becoming one of the most successful consumer activists in taking on PG&E in Hinkley, CA, in 1993, about which a movie was made called Erin Brockovich. Erin encourages us to break free from the box of other’s expectations and to develop the self-esteem needed for the long and persistent fight for justice.  Erin comes to Sonoma County to help those who were victims of last October wildfire storm that appears to have been sparked by PG&E’s negligent behaviour in protecting their equipment from nearby brush and trees as required as a public utility. Erin warns of legislation that would shield PG&E from accountability in future wildfire disasters in California, inspite of the corporation’s vast wealth.

Erin Brockovich

About our Guest: Erin Brockovich was born in Kansas in 1960. While working as a file clerk at a Los Angeles law firm in 1992, Brockovich uncovered documents that ultimately led to more than 600 residents of Hinkley, California, filing a lawsuit against utility giant PG&E. The $333 million settlement they received was the largest of its kind in the history of the United States. The story of Brokovich’s life and involvement in the case was the subject of the 2000 film Erin Brockovich, which starred Julia Roberts in the title role. Since the film’s release, Erin Brockovich has continued to work as a consumer advocate and environmental activist.

Guest LInk: wwww.brockovich.com

Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/ErinBrockovichOfficial

Related Links: Erin Brockovich joins legal team suing PG&E over October wildfires http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8449965-181/celebrity-environmental-advocate-erin-brockovich

http://pgelawsuit.com/erin-brockovich/

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Announcement Links

Sonoma County Board of Supervisors (BOS) cutting staff funding for the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women and for the Commission on Human Rights

 Really Sonoma County Board of Supervisors (BOS)! You are cutting staff funding for the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women at a time when women’s productive rights are in jeopardy and there is an effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. A good example of that is on the federal level: Trump and his fellow Republicans are still trying to defund Planned Parenthood. With a majority of women on the Board, how was this allowed? Have they forgotten whose shoulders they are standing on and the continuous struggle to have a significant place at the table?
In addition the BOS is cutting the staff funding for the Sonoma County Human Rights Commission (HRC) at a time when The United States has pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council, with Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley calling it “a mockery of human rights” for allowing China, among other countries, to join, and for a statement that scrutinizes Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people. In cutting county staff support, in my mind, they are degrading both commissions thus creating a high potential to fail. I encourage you to call your supervisor and let them know this is not acceptable to you.

Sonoma County Board of Supervisors: (707) 565-2241

https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/Board-of-Supervisors/

https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/Commission-on-the-Status-of-Women/

https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/Commission-on-Human-Rights/

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Music Selections:

The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin: The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

Standing on the Shoulders  by Earth Mama  from the Album Love Large (Rouse House)

 I’s Political by Shannon LaBrie from the Album: War and Peace ( LaBrie Records and BUTR Records LLC)

Link to Spinitron.com Playlist of the Women’s Spaces Show

 

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with guests Francisca Carranza on May Day labor organizing and Attorney Lauren Mendelsohn on guiding cannabis businesses through regulations, recorded on 4/30/18, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

Cannabis, labor, living wage, service organization, Sonoma County, union, women in business, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with guests Francisca Carranza on May Day labor organizing and Attorney Lauren Mendelsohn on guiding cannabis businesses through regulations, recorded on 4/30/18, has been uploaded to the web archives. The show was recorded, broadcast and streamed over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM in the NorthBay on Monday 4/30/18 and repeat broadcast and streamed over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM in Petaluma on Tuesday 5/1/18.

The link to the show’s archive webpage is

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA180430.html

May Day – Honor Labor
Cannabis Businesses, Regulations and the Public in Sonoma County

Announcements    (See Links below)

Featured

1. Francisca Carranza , Union Representative, Executive Board, Unite Here! Local 2850

2. Lauren Mendelsohn, JD, Associate Attorney with The Law Firm of Omar Figueroa, specializing in Cannabis Business Law; Member of the Board of Directors, Sonoma County Growers Alliance

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1. Francisca Carranza talks about her union organizing in the hospitality, food service and gaming industries in the East and North Bay for livable wages and affordable healthcare. Francisca talks about a local organizing effort for labor with UNITE HERE! LOCAL 2850 at the Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country in Santa Rosa and the May Day March that will rally in front of the hotel on May 1, 2018.  The May Day Events start in Roseland at 2 pm.

About our Guest:  Francisca Carranza is a union representative for UNITE HERE! local 2850, the East and North Bay’s Union for hotel, foodservice, and gaming workers! Local 2850 is part of the UNITE HERE! International Union which represents workers throughout the U.S. and Canada working in the hospitality, gaming, food service, manufacturing, textile, laundry, and airport industries. Francisca is a leader organizer that came to the fight for worker dignity during the historic Castlewood (Pleasanton CA) lockout that kept 61 members locked out and off the job for more than 30 months. To her credit she organized the non-union workers at Graton Casino and other North Bay communities. Francisca is the mother of 6 Children, an immigrant from Tijuana, Baja California Mexico. Carranza moved to the United States searching for economic opportunity.

Guest Link: www.unitehere2850.org

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2.  Lauren Mendelsohn, Attorney, talks about the coming of age of cannabis legalization through regulation of businesses after the passage of Proposition 64 in California. Lauren helps cannabis businesses with the permitting and licensing at the local and state levels, while negotiating with people, some in agencies or neighborhood groups, still under the sway of decades of Reefer Madness, and finding legal paths for businesses amidst the obstacles of the Federal government in its refusal to decriminalize the use and cultivation of the plant called cannabis or marijuana. Lauren cites reports that the recent opiod crisis has also demonstrated areas of retreat where cannabis has been legalized for medicinal or adult use..

About our Guest: Lauren Mendelsohn is an associate attorney at the Law Offices of Omar Figueroa, a boutique Northern California-based law firm serving the cannabis industry. She currently focuses on permitting and licensing for cannabis businesses, regulatory compliance, policy advocacy, and post-conviction relief. Lauren earned her J.D. from the University of California, Irvine School of Law and her B.S. from the University of Maryland.
For years, Lauren has been active in the drug policy reform movement. She is the former Chair of the Board of Directors of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), an international non-profit organization working to end the “War on Drugs.” She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Sonoma County Growers Alliance, a local cannabis trade organization.

Guest Links: www.omarfigueroa.com

www.scgalliance.com

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Announcement Links

fb event page: May 1st Walkout & Rally for Workers Rights, 2-5 pm, begin at Roseland Village Neighborhood Center (Dollar Store)

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League of Women Voters Event Link: http://lwvsonoma.org/calendar.html

 Please viist the LWV Event page for more events in May related to the election.

We will also provide links on the 2018 Political Candidates page.

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Music Selections:

The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin: The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

Which Side are You On by Bev Grant from her Album: We Were There – Women’s Labor History (2002 Human Condition Music)

Whose the Pusher Now by Ellen Bukstel from the Album: Legalize Now – It’s Natural (2013 CMI Vibe Music)

Link to Spinitron.com Playlist of the Women’s Spaces Show

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Lisa Maldonado and Maddy Hirschfield on Labor Day and Unions, broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 9/4/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

Community organizing, fair employment, living wage, service organization, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Lisa Maldonado and Maddy Hirschfield on Labor Day and Unions, broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 9/4/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

 

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA170904.html

Announcements

Featured Guests

1. Lisa Maldonado,  Area Director, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)1021

1a. Maddy Hirschfield, Political Director, North Bay Labor Council

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1.  Lisa Maldonado and Maddy Hirschfield join us in the studio, where outside the North Bay Labor Council was finishing its annual Labor Day breakfast at the Carpenter’s Union in Santa Rosa to talk about the origins of Labor Day and their personal journeys into the firght for labor rights. Lisa shares how her immigrant parents were able to get an opening to joining the Middle Class through her dad’s struggle to join and to keep his union job. The 8-hour day and 40-hour week are common today because of workers orgainizing to bargain as a collective unit with the employers leveraging power with their wealth profiting off the labor. Lisa and Maddy also discuss the lobbying efforts around the bill being debated in the State Assembly AB1250,  Project Labor Agreements,and the the trhreat of the “Right To Work” movement to destroy union solidarity in the workplace.

About our Guest:  Lisa Maldonado is the Area Director at SEIU1021 a public employee union representing working people in the North Bay. SEIU1021 represents over 4500 city, county, non-profit and municipal workers and is a strong force for social justice for all working people, leading on campaigns to fight for increased wages, pensions and paid sick leave for all. Lisa is an attorney and has previously worked as Field Director of the ACLU of Northern California where she coordinated field campaigns on issues such as racial profiling, the death penalty, marriage equality and immigrant’s rights. She is also a member of the Board of Directors at KBBF.
Guest Link: SEIU1021 www.seiu1021.org/category/where-we-work/counties/sonoma-county/

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About our Guest:  Maddy Hirschfield  has lived and been active in public life in Sonoma County for more than thirty years. Maddy has a long record of involvement in progressive politics at the local level, having served as manager and/or consultant to dozens of Sonoma County candidate and ballot measure campaigns to protect the environment, health care services, worker rights, transportation and equal rights for all. In 2002 she was voted Sonoma County Democrat of the Year and is Former Chair of the Sonoma County Democratic Party. Over 12 years she served two state legislators as primary speech writer and District Director. She is currently the Political Director for the North Bay Labor Council of the AFL-CIO, that reprepresents over 70 unions.

Guest Links:

North Bay Labor Council
https://unionhall.aflcio.org/nblc

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Music Selections:

The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin: The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

We Were There performed by Bev Grant from the Album: We Were There: Songs of Women Labor History  (Human Condition Music)

Bread and Roses by Bobbie McGee from the Album: Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways  (2006 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)

Which Side are you On by Bev Grant  from the Album: We Were There: Songs of Women Labor History  (Human Condition Music)

Link to Spinitron.com Playlist of the Women’s Spaces Show

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz andguests Cami Courtright on Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock and Mara Ventura on North Bay Jobs with Justice, broadcast on 5/22/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

ecology, living wage, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Water, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz andguests Cami Courtright on Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock and Mara Ventura on North Bay Jobs with Justice, broadcast on 5/22/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA170522.html

Announcements and Commentary

Featured Guests

1. Cami Courtright, Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock

2. Mariela (Mara) Ventura, Lead Organizer of North Bay Jobs with Justice

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1.   Cami Courtright shares her journey to active involvement with drawing attention to the Standing Rock movement to protect the water and Native American Tribal rights. She brings us up to date with the move to encourage banks and other investments tools to divest from the Dakota Access Pipe Line (DAPL) venture that is causing the environmental damage and potentially much more to major water sources.

About our First Guest:  Cami Courtright obtained her master’s degree in sociology with an emphasis in gender and cultural studies. In 2000 she volunteered at a Women’s Health Education Resource Center on a Native American reservation in South Dakota. She also has worked in a women’s shelter for abused women on a reservation and in the area of alcohol and drug addiction with various populations including working with Native American women. Cami currently works as a behaviorist for a progressive agency which serves the special needs population. Additionally she has written a humorous blog about her home town (Sebastopol) and recently was invited to be a columnist for Sonoma West Times

Guest Links: Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock: (to Facebook page)

The talk that Chase Iron Eyes gave at the SRJC last April 2017 (to YouTube page):

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2. Mara Ventura describes the mission of Jobs with Justice and how she rose to the leadership position in the local North Bay chapter. She updates us with recent achievements in the current Good Jobs and Zero Waste Campaign, including the signing of a Teamster Union Contract with the Ratto Group providing Recycle and Waste Services to Santa Rosa.

About our Second Guest: Mariela (Mara) Ventura hails equally from both coasts but has spent the last 10 years organizing on immigration, education, and worker’s rights in the Pacific Northwest. Born in Colombia and brought here as an infant, Mara is a proud queer immigrant and very actively involved in her community. Mara has her BA in Sociology and is deeply committed to social justice and grassroots direct-action organizing. As the lead organizer for North Bay Jobs with Justice, Mara spends the majority of her time helping build a bridge between issues the community is addressing and fights workers are having to win improvements in their workplaces/industries.

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Music Selections:

For Those Who Dream by Joanne Shandoah and Paul Orgega, from the album Songs of Native American Women  (Canyon Records)

We Were There by Bev Grant
from the album Songs of Women’s Labor History (Human Condition Music)

Link  to Spinitron.com Playlist of the Women’s Spaces Show

 

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Dr. Harriet Fraad on Mothers Day origins and current motherhood in the USA, broadcast on 5/15/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

Human Rights, living wage, women's rights, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Dr. Harriet Fraad on Mothers Day origins and current motherhood in the USA, broadcast on 5/15/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA170515.html

Announcements and Commentary

Featuring Guest

1. Dr. Harriet Fraad, Psychothrerapist, Author,  Feminist

About our Guest:  Dr. Harriet Fraad, Ed.D, is a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist in private practice in New York City. She is a founding member of the feminist movement and the journal Rethinking Marxism. For 40 years, she has been a radical committed to transforming US personal and political life. She writes regularly for Truthout, and journals such as Tikkun, and The Journal of Psychohistory. Her latest book written with Richard Wolff and Stephen Resnick is Class Struggle on the Home Front (Palgrave 2009). She writes a blog called Economy and Society with Richard D. Wolff that appears on her website, harrietfraad.com, and the website of Richard Wolff, RDWolff.com. Her newest publication is an essay written with Tess Fraad-Wolff, Imagine Personal and Sexual Life Under Socialism which appears in the forthcoming book Imagine Socialism in the USA (Harper Collins, 2013).

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1.  Guest Dr. Harriet Fraad highlights some of the original ideas of Julia Ward Howe on Mother Day, as well as those of other women activists at the time. Dr. Fraad then talks about the current situation of mothers in the USA and the mixed messages of the worth of the mother by policy makers who make it difficult for mother’s to nurture their children with decreasing income and social resources.  The effect on men is also discussed.

Guest Links: www.harrietfraad.com

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Music Selections:

No Charge by Melba Montgomery, from the album Country Classics released in 1994 – 18 Country Classics (KTEL)

Julia Ward Howe Mothers Day Proclamation recited by Ghizela Rowe, from the album Mother’s Day No. 2 (Prime Music)

My Yiddisha Momme by Sophie Tucker, from the album Shalom Music of the Jewish People (Compendia)

Link  to Spinitron.com Playlist of the Women’s Spaces Show

 

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Cynthia Quinn, Bonny Petty, Dr. Loi Medvin, and Rev. Margaret Flick on Standing Rock Water Protectors, broadcast on 11/21/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

ecology, Human Rights, Indigenous People, living wage, Oil, Santa Rosa, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Cynthia Quinn, Bonny Petty, Dr. Loi Medvin, and Rev. Margaret Flick on Standing Rock Water Protectors, broadcast on 11/21/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA161121.html

Featuring Guests:

1. Cynthia Quinn, a member of the sovereign Yurok Reservation

2. Bonnie Petty, Leader iin North Bay Jobs with Justice/Living Wage Coalition, Communications Vice President of the Santa Rosa Democratic Club

3. Dr. Loi Medvin, Licensed Psychologist in trauma tranformation, Co-producer, For All Our Relations Standing Rock Benefit supporting the Water Protectors facing off the Dakota Access Pipeline on Nov.6th

4.  Rev. Margaret Flick, Unity Minister, Santa Rosa Unity

Announcements

Guest  1.  Cynthia Quinn describes how her grandmother kept the Yurok traditions alive, and she in turn for her daughter, and her daughter awoke her to the urgency of the situation in Standing Rock and their need to visit the scene of resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).  Cynthia’s grandmother’s teachings came alive in that community of Water Protectors that greeted them at Standing Rock.

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2.  Bonnie Petty shares how those fighting for a living working wage felt the need to show solidarity and joined the demonstration supporting Standing Rock in downtown Santa Rosa on November 11, 2016.

Guest Linkz: northbayjobswithjustice.org

http://democlub.org/

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3.  Dr. Loi Medvin reports on the For All Our Relations Standing Rock Benefit supporting the Water Protectors facing off the Dakota Access Pipeline that occured o Nov.6th.  Over $30,000 was raised at the benefit at the Sebastopol Grange.

Guest Link: Past EventLinks: For All Our Relations Standing Rock Benefit on November 6th,

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4.  Rev. Margaret Flick leads us into centering ourselves as we deal with our national ordeal.

Guest Link: https://unityofsantarosa.com/

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Music Selections: 

By My Silence by Ellen Bukstel (CD) http://ellenbukstel.com/music/

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Vesta Copestakes with the top news of 2016 reported in the Sonoma County Gazette, and guests Amanda Moody and Melissa “Missy” Weaver on their new play Serial Murderess at Main Stage West broadcast on 1/4/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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homeless women assistance, living wage, Self esteem, Sonoma County, women in business, women in theatre, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest  Vesta Copestakes with the top news of 2016 reported in the Sonoma County Gazette, and guests Amanda Moody and Melissa “Missy” Weaver on their new play Serial Murderess at Main Stage West broadcast on 1/4/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA160104.html

Featuring Guests:

1. Vesta Copestakes Publisher, Sonoma County Gazette

2. Amanda Moody, Poet, Playwright, Actress, Member of Main Stage West

3. Melissa “Missy” Weaver, Dramaturgist, Lighting & Stage Design, Member of Main Stage West

Announcements

Music Breaks:  By My Silence by Ellen Bukstel and Nick Annis http://ellenbukstel.com/music/

Guest 1.  Vesta Copestakes discusses the main news of 2015 concerning Sonoma County, which included homelessness and the lack of living wages.

Guest Link:

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Music Break:  There is No Business Like Show Business  performed by Ethel Merman

Guests 2. & 3.  Amanda Moody and Melissa “Missy” Weaver talk about choosing their careers in theater, how they dealt with self esteem, and their collaboration in producing a play, Amanda reads a part from their play Serial Murderess now being presented at Main Stage West in Sebastopol. through January 17th.

Guest Link: www.mainstagewest.com/plays/serial-murderess/

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Amanda Carles of Northbay Jobs With Justice and Christi Camblor of Compassion Without Borders veterinary services, broadcast on 12/21/15, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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Community organizing, fair employment, living wage, Self esteem, Sonoma County, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Amanda Carles of Northbay Jobs With Justice and Christi Camblor of Compassion Without Borders veterinary services,  broadcast on 12/21/15, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA151221.html

Featuring Guests:

1. Amanda Carles , Member, Advisory Board for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 2015

2. Christi Camblor, Veterinarian and Co-founder, Compassion Without Borders

Announcements

Music Breaks: Union Maid Judy Collins and Pete Seeger perform cover of Woody Guthrie’s  (on YouTube)

Guest 1.  Amanda Carles is an In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) care provider for her child and other medically challenged people of all ages but especially the elderly. She discusses the difficulties dealing with the Board of Supervisors holding the wages so low or raising them at the expense of losing the health benefits, while the Supervisors raised their own salaries to one of the highest in the state.

Guest Link: Northbay Jobs with Justice www.facebook.com/nbjwj
www.northbayjobswithjustice.org/

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Music Break:  When Somebody Loves Me – From Toy Story 2 soundtrack (on YouTube)

Guests 2. Christi Camblor talks about the chanllenges and joys of her veterinarian career with Sonoma County Humane Society and the  organization Compassion Without Border that she co-founded and which provides free and low cost care to animals.

Guest Links: http://cwob.org/